The Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation is committed to supporting research on teaching and learning at the University of California, Irvine. Toward that end, we offer the following services:
- Guidance and support to conduct rigorous research on teaching and learning
- Faculty support for teaching and learning-related grant submissions
- Assessment support for educational components of federal grants (e.g., Education Plans for NSF CAREER Grants, or Broader Impacts for NSF research grants)
- Coordination of cross-campus and cross-unit data collection and dissemination
- Dissemination of results in discipline-based education research
Project Scientist: Kameryn Denaro (kdenaro@uci.edu)
Postdoctoral Scholar: Elizabeth Park (liz.park@uci.edu)
Postdoctoral Scholar: Veronika Rozhenkova (vrozhenk@uci.edu)
To consult with the DTEI about these services or to discuss your ideas about teaching and learning research, please contact DTEI’s Associate Dean, Brian Sato, bsato@uci.edu. For additional campus resources regarding education research, please visit the Education Research Initiative.
Primary mission statement: Promote excellence in research on teaching and learning at UCI
Goal 1: Create a culture of expertise in research on teaching and learning
- Promote and provide professional development and support for faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students to assess student learning in their own courses
- Provide local and national dissemination of teaching and learning research findings
Goal 2: Improve the use of institutional data in research
- Develop mechanisms to make campus data broadly accessible for educational research
- Partner with other key data groups on campus (Office of Institutional Research, Center for Assessment and Applied Research, and Office of Information Technology) to achieve this goal
Goal 3: Promote grant funding for teaching and learning research
- Bring people together and lead grants
- Advise people who are writing grants
- Provide evaluation and assessment support to grants written by others
Teaching and Learning Research Resources
- General Information
- Current Funding Opportunities
- Center for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL) and Teaching as Research (TAR)